I've been doing air ops for a long time. Never seen fighter packages plus AR available for long range SAR for other people's civilian aircraft in the middle of nowhere. I'd like to know when and where you did that kind of thing... Don't answer that, then we'd know you're full of it.

Firefighter just doesn't know better, at least he's not pretending to be a fighter pilot to make a point.

Thruster and I fought together at the battle of Macho Grande. I’ve never gotten over it.

“Over Macho Grande? I don’t think I’ll ever get over Macho Grande.”

I found these very interesting

https://imgur.com/gallery/WhNJdo0

https://imgur.com/gallery/uIRac1f

or at least what I could understand

I came up with an in-flight fire hypothesis near the start of this thread which could have (barely) explained the circumstances.

It's a stretch, but stranger things have happened. I'm not sold either way.

How many years was the speculation for AF447 til the DFDR was found? Hopefully the DFDR will be recovered in less years it took to find the Titanic.

From the author “nicknamepilot”, Quote “No 777 can fly above 43,100 feet”.... And you just lost any and all credibility.

The max operating altitude limitation of 43,100 has to do with pressurization and cabin differential. It has NOTHING to do with how high the airplane can physically fly. Any professional pilot knows that.

well, he’s not on this thread. But I’m failing to understand what you’re trying to say. Was the author implying that anything above 43k FT had anything to do with cabin pressurization?

interesting. I’ll have to dig for that. This was the first time I heard that the aircraft had an in flight fire two weeks prior to the disappearance.